Archive for November, 2010

November 30th, 2010 |
Author: Michael RobertscloseAuthor: Michael RobertsName: Michael RobertsSite:http://www.rexxfield.com/essay_internet_defamation_libel.phpAbout: Michael is a thought leader in the areas of internet anonymity, abuse of electronic free speech and industry regulation to protect victims of cyber bullies and defamation. Some media personalities have described him as an "Anonymous Blogger Bounty Hunter".
He is a Case Analyst, Digital Forensics Investigator, Libel Litigation Consultant and entrepreneur. Michael founded Mile2, an international I.T. security organization that has consulted for or trained thousands of personnel from many of the world’s defense forces, intelligence agencies, governments, financial institutions, NGOs and almost any industry imaginable. As a result of his first-hand experience with a malicious, vile and relentless online libel antagonist he sold Mile2 and has turned his passion and focus to helping other victims through the anguish and frustration of such an assault. His team is breaking new ground in direct methods of addressing the attacks as well as seeking congressional and judicial reform to protect the innocent victims of the malicious, illegal and unprotected abuse of free speech. In mid 2010 Michael's antagonist was finally convicted of felonies in two US states with other state and federal charges pending.
Michael was appointed as an investigator for the Australian Telecommunications Commission in the 80s at the age of twenty with field and security clearances from the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) before moving to the USA in the late 90s. Michael and his family now live between the USA and Europe.See Authors Posts (11)

While online, some people self-disclose or act out more frequently or intensely than they would in person. This article explores six factors that interact with each other in creating this online disinhibition effect: dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection, dissociative imagination, and minimization of authority. Personality variables also will influence the extent of this disinhibition. Rather than thinking of disinhibition as the revealing of an underlying “true self,” we can conceptualize it as a shift to a constellation within self-structure, involving clusters of affect and cognition that differ from the in-person constellation.